Two games aren’t enough to completely dispose of preseason expectations, but it’s enough to reexamine what we thought we knew.
Week 2 is my favorite week of Power Rankings because it’s often the most ridiculous. It’s like polling eight people at a Dave Matthews Band concert in New Jersey and using that information to project the results of the presidential election . But we also have no other choice.
The Lions get knocked down one spot and the Bills move into No. 2 after a convincing win over the Dolphins on short rest, this after fending off the Cardinals in Week 1.win looks better in hindsight after Arizona blew the door off the rehabbing Rams. A balanced effort and just two Josh Allen carries in a divisional win is about as perfect as the Bills can get.
The Packers had one of the most impressive wins of the season so far, staving off 0–2 without Jordan Love by building a bully of a run game and an offense tailormade for Malik Willis. I’ve always thought Willis was a fun player and he showed some touch on a critical, much needed touchdown pass. But the champagne goes to Matt LaFleur and his staff, who smeared this offense in all sorts of window dressing that disguised what we already knew: the plan was to run it down the pipe.
Pittsburgh and Kansas City are next, two teams that should help us answer the major question attached to this team: whothese guys? J.K. Dobbins has been the heartwarming story of this season, but so has the fact that the Chargers are carving teams up with one of the lowest run block win rates in the NFL (and, much to the chagrin of previous Chargers regimes, the best runLast week’s result: lost to Kansas City, 26–25Two straight 0–2 teams here. Explain it? O.K.
Kirk Cousins said after the game that he’s not all the way back. That was clear a week ago but less so this week against the Eagles, when Cousins looked spry on his way down the field to deliver a game-winning touchdown. The Falcons survived the prospect of a terrifying 0–2 hole and can now begin the climb to deflate red hot starts from both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New Orleans Saints.This week: vs.
Tyler Huntley ends up as Miami’s backup option/competition for Skylar Thompson. But I wonder if the Dolphins would entertain swinging a deal for a pigeonholed backup like Trey Lance or Bryce Young at some point. Mike McDaniel and Young would be a fascinating combination. Mike White is on the Bills’ practice squad, Desmond Ridder, Austin Reed and Bailey Zappe are also on practice squads and I wonder what they would look like in a Mike McDaniel offense.
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